UnitedHealthcare Awards $5.2 Million in Grants to California Nonprofits - $2.2 Million to Three Los Angeles-Area Health

  UnitedHealthcare Awards $5.2 Million in Grants to California Nonprofits -
  $2.2 Million to Three Los Angeles-Area Health Organizations

  Grants support nine California nonprofit organizations to strengthen youth
   wellness, care delivery and health technology in underserved communities

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LOS ANGELES -- March 14, 2013

Three Los Angeles-area nonprofits have been awarded a total of $2.2 million in
grants by UnitedHealthcare to help improve health care services and wellness
programs for people in underserved communities.

UnitedHealthcare awarded $2.2 million to three Los Angeles nonprofits to
improve health care service ...

UnitedHealthcare awarded $2.2 million to three Los Angeles nonprofits to
improve health care services for the underserved. The grant presentation was
held at Liggett Elementary School in Panorama City, one of 33 schools
participating in Northridge Hospital's Obesity and Diabetes Initiative. L-R -
Front Row: Bonnie Bailer, director of Center for Healthier Communities,
Northridge Hospital Medical Center; Brandon Cuevas, CEO, UnitedHealthcare of
California; Nury Martinez, LAUSD board member, Northeast San Fernando Valley;
Zev Yaroslavsky, L.A. County supervisor; and Nancy Vallens, principal, Liggett
Elementary School. L-R - Back Row: Peter Dale, Public Health Foundation; Mary
Franz, Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services; Mark Casanova, executive
director, Homeless Health Care Los Angeles; Brian Hammel, president,
Northridge Hospital Foundation; and Michael Lehrer, president of board of
directors, Homeless Health Care Los Angeles (Photo: Jamie Rector).

These grants are part of $5.2 million UnitedHealthcare is awarding to nine
health care organizations to support nonprofit clinics and hospitals that
improve health care services for underserved communities statewide.

Homeless Health Care Los Angeles ($241,725), Northridge Hospital Foundation
($662,408) and Public Health Foundation Enterprises ($1.3 million) received
the funding to support wellness and medical education programs and improve the
delivery of health care services throughout Los Angeles County.

The announcement was made at Liggett Elementary School in Panorama City, one
of 33 schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) participating
in the Northridge Hospital’s School-based Obesity and Diabetes Initiative
(SODI). The initiative includes physical education classes for elementary
students, healthy-cooking classes for parents, onsite health screening and
fitness programs for teachers and staff, and educational workshops on health
and wellness. The $662,408 grant will help expand the program in 20 of the
participating schools and enable full-time P.E. teachers to work with eight of
the schools.

At the grant presentation, community leaders including Los Angeles County
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, Nury Martinez, LAUSD board member for the
Northeast San Fernando Valley, and representatives from the offices of
Congressman Tony Cárdenas, state Sen. Fran Pavley and state Assemblymember
Adrin Nazarian met with teachers and students, and watched a P.E. teacher lead
students in exercises as part of the school’s SODI program.

“It is wonderful to see how public-private partnerships are making a
tremendous difference in the lives of our students and their families,”
Martinez said. “We thank UnitedHealthcare for supporting this program and its
commitment to our community.”

“This generous grant from UnitedHealthcare will increase the number of
students, parents and teachers who will benefit from participating in our
wellness initiative with LAUSD,” said Saliba Salo, president and CEO,
Northridge Hospital Medical Center. “This funding is critical to expanding our
wellness and education programs to more underserved communities in the San
Fernando Valley.”

Public Health Foundation Enterprises, which received a $1.3 million grant, is
working with Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services to improve health care
coordination and delivery for underserved people throughout the county via the
Los Angeles County Safety Net Health Information Exchange Project. The program
is expanding the capability to administer health-related services to a network
of community clinics that are served by Public Health Foundation Enterprises.

Homeless Health Care Los Angeles, a nonprofit drug treatment and health
services provider, received $241,725 to expand its medical health care
services for Los Angeles-area homeless people.

“We are grateful to receive this critical funding that will support the
continued development of our health information technology initiatives,” said
Nancy Kindelan, CEO, Public Health Foundation Enterprises. “Through these
efforts we are able to expand and improve our patient delivery systems and
access to care for the community clinics that serve many underserved residents
throughout Los Angeles.”

Mark Casanova, executive director of Homeless Health Care Los Angeles, said,
“UnitedHealthcare’s generous grant will help us advance meaningful and
effective systemic strategies for appropriate discharge planning of
chronically homeless patients in hospitals and health centers in Southern
California.”

“These nonprofit organizations are making a tremendous impact in improving the
health of communities in the Los Angeles region and throughout the state,”
said Brandon Cuevas, CEO, UnitedHealthcare of California. “UnitedHealthcare is
grateful for the opportunity to work together with them and help enhance the
health and quality of life for children, adults and families.”

Since 2008, UnitedHealthcare has provided more than $30 million in grants to
53 nonprofits throughout California. Eleven of them are in Los Angeles,
receiving $5.5 million. In addition to these grants, the UnitedHealthcare
California Health Care Investment Program has provided $269 million in total
investments to 46 health care organizations throughout the state that provide
services to underserved, low-income and underinsured communities and
populations.

UnitedHealthcare serves more than 2.3 million Californians with a care
provider network of 320 hospitals and more than 56,800 physicians statewide.

About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping people nationwide live healthier
lives by simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and
wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The
company offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals,
employers and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with
780,000 physicians and care professionals and 5,900 hospitals and other care
facilities nationwide. UnitedHealthcare serves more than 40 million people and
is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified
Fortune 50 health and well-being company.

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